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Speaker 1: Good morning and welcome to the Daily Ours. Today is Tuesday,

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Speaker 1: the first of March. We are here to take you

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Speaker 1: through another day of the news. I'm Zara Sidler, joined

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Speaker 1: by Sam Kozlowski. There's a lot in the headline, Sam

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Speaker 1: break it down for me, so.

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Speaker 2: We're going to talk about the flooding in Queensland and

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Speaker 2: New South Wales later in the podcast, but first on Ukraine.

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Speaker 2: Vladimir Putin announced Russia's deterrence forces, which includes its nuclear weapons,

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Speaker 2: have been placed on special alert. The Russian president said

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Speaker 2: this was because Western leaders had made aggressive statements about

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Speaker 2: his invasion of Ukraine. Putin did not announce specific plans

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Speaker 2: to use nuclear weapons, but it's the second threat he

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Speaker 2: has made towards the West in the last few days.

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Speaker 1: Staying on the topic of Ukraine now and Prime Minister

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Speaker 1: Scott Morrison yesterday warned Ozzies against traveling to Ukraine to

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Speaker 1: fight against Russia's invasion after Ukraine's President Vladimir Zelenski urged

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Speaker 1: citizens of the world to help fight. Morrison said, I

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Speaker 1: can understand absolutely the feelings and the motivations for people

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Speaker 1: to go and do that, but I'd say at this

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Speaker 1: time the legality of such actions are uncertain under Australian law.

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Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the European Union has placed a blanket flight ban

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Speaker 2: on Russian planes, including the private planes of Russian oligarchs.

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Speaker 2: European Commission President Ursula Vonderline confirms they won't be able

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Speaker 2: to land, in take off or overfly the territory of

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Speaker 2: the EU.

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Speaker 1: And finally to today's good news, yesterday Squid Game one big.

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Speaker 1: It was the first time actors in a non English

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Speaker 1: language series took home awards at the Screen Actors Guild SAM.

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Speaker 1: We've been seeing some pretty terrifying vision coming out of

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Speaker 1: New South Wales and Queensland as both states battle extreme flooding.

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Speaker 1: We've seen photos of whole roads and towns underwater. Can

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Speaker 1: you just take us back to the start and explain

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Speaker 1: what's happened, Zara.

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Speaker 2: These storms have caused a lot of devastation across both

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Speaker 2: the states. Let's start with the southeast of Queensland, where

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Speaker 2: there are several affected LGAs local government areas including Brisbane,

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Speaker 2: the Gold Coasts, the Sunshine Coast, Noosa to Womba and

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Speaker 2: many more. In some of these areas, about a year's

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Speaker 2: worth of rain has fallen in just the last few days.

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Speaker 2: In the press conference yesterday, Queensland Premier Anastasia Palaches said

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Speaker 2: that the state had never before seen so much rain

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Speaker 2: in such a short period of time.

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Speaker 3: And I think everyone would agree no one has seen

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Speaker 3: this amount of rain in such a short period of time.

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Speaker 3: Over our entire southeast catchment zone.

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Speaker 2: More than one thousand roads have been cut off and

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Speaker 2: about one thousand schools have been closed. The state's Education Minister,

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Speaker 2: Grace Grace, has said schools will be reopened as soon

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Speaker 2: as possible, particularly those that haven't been affected by flooding.

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Speaker 2: The Premier said that about fifteen thousand homes have been

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Speaker 2: directly impacted by the floods in Brisbane and about three thousand,

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Speaker 2: six hundred in Gimpi, which is north of the Sunshine Coast.

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Speaker 2: This is on top of the fifty four thousand homes

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Speaker 2: in southeast Queensland that are without power. Authorities have confirmed

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Speaker 2: at least eight people have passed away from those floods.

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Speaker 2: This came after Gold Coast life savers found the body

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Speaker 2: of a man and his dog submerged in a car

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Speaker 2: in the Curumbin Valley yesterday morning. Police have said they

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Speaker 2: have grave concerns for a few more people who they

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Speaker 2: believe are missing in Brisbane.

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Speaker 1: It's not just Queensland though. Let's move to New South Wales.

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Speaker 4: Now, Well, good afternoon everyone. Obviously we are seeing unprecedented flooding,

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Speaker 4: particularly in northern New South Wales, and we expect that

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Speaker 4: flooding and to get worse.

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Speaker 1: Sam, what's the latest update on what's happening in northern

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Speaker 1: New South Wales. I believe that there is a particular

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Speaker 1: concern in Lismore.

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Speaker 2: That's right, as New South Wales Premier Dominic Perete said

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Speaker 2: in that clip, These floods in northern New South Wales,

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Speaker 2: particularly in Lismore, are totally unprecedented. So Lismore is in

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Speaker 2: the northeastern area of New South Wales and has the

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Speaker 2: Wilson's River passed through it. Lismore has previously been subject

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Speaker 2: to some seasonal flooding, but what's happening at the moment

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Speaker 2: has been labeled its worst ever flood crisis. Yesterday morning

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Speaker 2: in Lismore, the regions flood levee was breach. So a

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Speaker 2: flood levee are human made structures designed to protect regions

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Speaker 2: from flooding and hold back flood water. But this was

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Speaker 2: ultimately breached and by midday yesterday the Wilsons River had

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Speaker 2: reached fourteen point two meters and that's about two meters

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Speaker 2: above the previous record. The Australian Defense Force has arrived

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Speaker 2: in Lismore to assist with rescue efforts and as the

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Speaker 2: Premier said, he's expecting the situation to get worse over

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Speaker 2: the coming days. We didn't just hear from state leaders.

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Speaker 2: Prime Ministers Scott Morrison also echoed Perite's statements that these

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Speaker 2: floods are completely unprecedented and.

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Speaker 4: In northern New South Wales, but the floods we're seeing

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Speaker 4: in Lismore they have not seen they have not seen

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Speaker 4: them before, and people who were in areas that have

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Speaker 4: never been touched by floods have been overnight and that

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Speaker 4: is a crisis situation and we're working closely with the

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Speaker 4: New South Wales government to give them every support.

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Speaker 1: The parme Minister also did announce some financial government assistance

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Speaker 1: was available to those affected by the floods.

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Speaker 2: Right so Morrison was in Brisbane when he made this announcement,

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Speaker 2: and he confirms that the federal government will provide some

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Speaker 2: financial assistance for affected people. Eligible adults can expect to

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Speaker 2: receive one thousand dollars and eligible children will receive four

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Speaker 2: hundred dollars and this can all be accessed through Services Australia.

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Speaker 2: Here is a snippet of Morrison sharing exactly which residents

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Speaker 2: will be eligible for the payment.

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Speaker 4: Local government areas Brisbane City, Fraser Coast, Gold Coast of Course,

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Speaker 4: gimpe Ipswich, Lochier Valley, Logan, Morden Bay, Noosa, North Burnett,

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Speaker 4: Redland City, Scenic Rim, Somerset, South Burnette, Southern Downs, Sunshine

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Speaker 4: Coast to Woomba, and local government areas in and around

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Speaker 4: the Lismore area, particularly the City of Lismore.

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Speaker 2: People can access that support by visiting Services Australia, which

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Speaker 2: also has all the details on exactly what these eligibility requirements.

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Speaker 1: Are sam To round this out, one question that I

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Speaker 1: feel like is on everyone's lips is whether or not

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Speaker 1: these floods are the results of climate change? What do

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Speaker 1: we know about this?

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Speaker 2: I do think this is something we've all been thinking

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Speaker 2: about over the last few days, particularly thinking whether this

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Speaker 2: is actually something we're going to be seeing more of.

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Speaker 2: Andrew King and Kimberly Reid, who are both researchers at

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Speaker 2: Melbourne University had a really interesting article in The Conversation

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Speaker 2: yesterday where they analyzed some research they had done about

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Speaker 2: the floods across Eastern Australia in March last year. The

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Speaker 2: research has found the chance of whether events such as

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Speaker 2: the one we saw last year and the ones we're

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Speaker 2: seeing right now they will become more likely, but more

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Speaker 2: research is needed. They said. Climate change will increase the

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Speaker 2: occurrence of atmospheric rivers over the planet, but more research

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Speaker 2: is needed to determine just how often we can expect

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Speaker 2: these damaging events to happen, including in southeast Queensland.

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Speaker 1: Taken together with everything else that is happening across the world,

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Speaker 1: it is of course an extremely dire situation and a

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Speaker 1: big thank you to the Emergency Service volunteers and workers

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Speaker 1: who are working tirelessly to get this situation under control.

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Speaker 1: That is all we have time for today. We will

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Speaker 1: be updating you on this situation in both Queensland and

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Speaker 1: New South Wales throughout the day on our Instagram at

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Speaker 1: the Daily OS. But if you do need information urgently,

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Speaker 1: please check in with your local SES services. Take care

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Speaker 1: of you